Archives for the month June 2009 of Genesis8 Amstrad Page

Gamebase CPC

06/30/2009 - 21:09genesis8

GameBase is an Open Source "Emulator Frontend", released under the GNU General Public Licence. It is a program that
attempts to make running games on various emulators very easy, so that you don't have to remember lots of command line parameters and config settings. GameBase is the Official Frontend
for the GB64 Collection of C64 games. It manages games, music, docs, screenshots and more

There is of course a GameBase CPC maintained by Loïc Daneels. He is adding .YM music, screenshots, scans of package and documentation.

old french Amstrad newpapers

Elite IV soon on (C)PC, PS3 and Xbox360 !

06/17/2009 - 22:04genesis8

After some announces in 2006 and 2007, this time it's for real, the PS3 information site thesixthaxis
has confirmed that David Braben officially announced
Elite
IV for PC, PS3 and Xbox360, but sadly not for CPC. No date is given though.

Amstrad CPC cross-development kit

06/16/2009 - 01:21genesis8

If you are still programming on Amstrad CPC, you are maybe using WinAPE. But its assembler has limitations.
For example, if you want to create a .DSK, a .SNA, compile something, compact something BEFORE or AFTER assembling, it's not possible in 1 pass and 1 key press.
But it's now possible with some additional software (freeware).

GrafX v2 final version (graphical bitmap editor)

It's a bitmap paint program that allows to draw in more than 60 video resolutions (from 320x200, including most of the standard Amiga resolutions, provided your videocard knows how
to handle them). It was written originally for DOS, but has been modified to use SDL and modern operating systems.

Its layout is not very different from Deluxe Paint or Brilliance, so it will be quite easy to handle it if you know at least one of these programs.

Layout of the page is still quite ugly (less than before I hope), as I type all the html + css code directly with an editor(pspad),
and I am still learning CSS. If you think you can help me getting more sexier pages, hit Contact on the menu to email me.

Amstrad Expo and Klassentreffen 2009 pictures

06/05/2009 - 23:25genesis8

You will find pictures of the 2 meetings Amstrad Expo and Klassentreffen 2009 on CPCscene.

Ultrasy music pack 1

06/05/2009 - 23:55genesis8

Ultrasyd music pack 1 has been released by Ultrasyd, it's a music pack with four original STarKos tracks.